Shamadamun

Patch notes:

- New exclusive holiday skins from Black Lion Chests
- Additional ways to acquire new ascended items through mystic forge (requires 50 ectos, ofc) and as random drops from dragon chests (0.001%)
- Ascended mystic awesome stones available from the gem store that greatly increase your chances of getting ascended items out of the forge (oh, of course you're not guaranteed these new items! That would just be silly!) Zommoros loves stones! mmm, stones.
- More awesome adventures with Destiny's Edge and Trahearne await you in all-new dungeons locked behind bugged events. Just in case you didn't get enough of Logan's butthurt in the first place!
- Added New kind of boosts to the gem store, such as salvaging booster and gathering booster.
- Added more town clothes and costumes. Put your costumes to good use in paid costume brawl tournaments that you can enter using tournament tickets and win exciting prizes (such as Kill Streak Exp boosters, Black Lion logging axes and Black Lion Keys to open more chests for more town clothes!)
- Character advancement past level 80. You can craft charms from karka shells, ectos and 250 t6 fine crafting materials that you can carry in your inventory for a small stat boost.
- More epic one-time events so people can lag through experience the epic awesomeness
- Mounts (and flying ones too). See Tyria from above for the first time! Mounts don't increase your character's power and aren't useable in WvW or sPvP so it's okay to sell these in the gem store.
- Player housing in your home instance. Embark on a thrilling journey to build your own home! Gather ancient wood planks, orichalcum ore, and other structural materials, like globs of ectoplasm to glue it all together. Keeping to our philosophy of catering to players from all walks of life, we are also adding an option to take out a mortgage from Black Lion Trading Company, which will automatically take gold from your bank for the next 25 years.  
- Giant enemy crabs Nevermind. We already have those.

My guild is the same. We started with 20+ people playing all the time and not one of them has been online for about a month now. So to anyone who says that threads like this are nonsense - it's a pretty big coincidence that so many guilds are experiencing the same thing isn't it? You can nay-say all you like but the fact is people are steadily dropping out of a game that just a few months ago was the best thing since sliced WoW.

I myself haven't played properly since before Halloween; I just got bored and I never even got past level 25. It's difficult to tell exactly what went wrong for me seeing as I haven't been affected by any of ANet's changes that they promised they wouldn't do but it's like the game's missing something.

Long-ass explanation:

And once again people gloss over the fact that Guild Wars was named after "The Guild Wars", an event which took place before the timeline of GW. The name has actually nothing to do with GvG http://wiki.guildwar.../The_Guild_Wars

Going for a mix of the knight and the assassin look, In Kormir's colors.  I still want T2 pants and T3 to complete the look.  I'll probably use Inquest guantlets when I can get a group for runs.

It's a PvP zone.  I give no free passes nor expect any.  Kill or be killed.

(personal definition exception exists for the following post:  Skinner proceedures in the sense of doing the same things but recieving different outcomes... very common in the gameplay of certain "addictive" games these days)

dirkaderpa, on 25 October 2012 - 05:36 AM, said:

Fun is basically a non-answer that people who can't quantify things very well usually echo back with so I won't use that b/c I'm actually confident in an ability to see holistic composition.  I think it.... gives a progressive task (exploring vast new geometry, acquiring components) that is Relaxing and very wide-open, while having a much more cohesive pacing than your standard derp sessions in LOL or your Tryhard sessions in valve's very competitive CC fest varient.  Those are fine games too for people who like to grind the same bots day after day after day or complicate their PvP /w rock-scissors-dynamite.  But the scenery in them never changes even if the fights all feel like they're happening in different contexts all the time.   It really comes down to how one seeks validation.  Do you prefer getting lost in Theorycraft & minmaxxing as opposed to the actual grounding reality of practical application in a more nuanced environment?

The strategies are still the same.  Even the gameplay can be similar.  The combat has plenty of depth as well.  Anet just did such an exhaustive job of boiling everything down and stripping away certain Skinner-Box elements that a lot of people honestly think they're playing an inferior product simply b/c it doesn't stimulate compulsion centers the same way.  To someone like me who always recognized those elements and felt them directly in other games, it doesn't feel any different here.  To people who interpret the skinnerian illusion of other games as "Immersion", spending 7 years playing GW1 off and on, would have been unthinkable as well yet I did...  I think all of us who did and still play this, subscribe to a different validation structure entirely, especially us PvE'ers. (in my case, associative structure based on predictable outcomes to serve other players instead of direct competitive achievement or "gamble-raiding").


It's inherent, I don't think there is any "aha moments" where someone can just enjoy a certain playstyle that they never liked before unless they were already taking steps to change their whole lifestyle and the way they approach their own motives.  If it happens at all, then it's probably over time & due to them just getting older or more mature.  ...or the even more likely answer: some people have been directly conditioned against making that transition back to more simplified stimuli

Shayne Hawke, on 24 October 2012 - 11:23 PM, said:

OH GOD I'M A VAMPIRE.

...Aaaanyway, I agree with the complaint corner. But it should be for CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM though, baseless whining belongs to the trashcan.

Only reason I'm underwhelmed so far is because I haven't heard any Mad King jokes yet.

What's to discuss on this thread? Either it's boo ANET sucks. Or Boo you must have been a jerk to deserve that ban. Either way there's no point to this thread.

SBI v JQ v WhatsLeftOfHoDWhoTransferredToIoJ

Nothing new here folks, move along.

Voison, on 15 October 2012 - 10:07 PM, said:

Here you go:

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I think it's time for JQ guilds to declare victory and retire.

Obviously someone missed the memo.. JQ has won and is retiring now.

I think we should break out the WvW thread drinking game! It works for all match-up threads!

Take a drink someone:

-complains about getting double-teamed
  -take an extra drink if the post above him/her is from another server complaining about the same thing

-Asks to team-up against the top server

-Says that someone hacked the orb
   -extra drink if a screenshot is included!

-Complains about invisible players

-Calls any server by they're derogatory name (i.e. Stormbufs, Isle of Jantears, etc)

-someone posts a wvw video with corny music


Every time there's an argument between 2 players take a drink for each post made by each player


Finish your drink if:

-A mod posts in the thread, deletes some posts and tells everyone to calm down

-A mod locks the thread

-Someone posts any WvW montage with dubstep

-Anet posts in the thread for any reason

-Any alliance falls apart while the thread is still going


Am I missing any rules or did I manage to remember all them?